Little barn find for you chaps, anyone interested?

Doesn't look to be in too bad condition. Nice!

Very nice! I want!

Engine compartment photos please (exhaust and inlet specs, carb etc)

Thanks

How much and where's the car located?

From the outside it looks genuine, we need pics of the engine bay

pic of engine as said, location, price, time frame when it has to be collected by.

not a hard car to find interest for!

Did they make 136 sports? I always thought it was just 130's they did.

It should have an extra plate in the boot compartment.

I shall try to get more pictures for you guys by next weekend. Apologies if it sounded ambiguous, but the car is not for sale. My father has had the car in storage for roughly 8 years and with a little push from me, we have decided to clean it up, get it up to show quality and take it for some showing.

It is a genuine sport, although i'm not entirely sure if the engine is standard, it has an aluminium head, bigger pistons, aluminium exhaust, 4-2-1 manifold, big carb etc etc. If you stand 6ft behind the car, you can feel the blowing from the exhaust back pressure on your leg. It is HIGHLY tuned. What's more, is we are lucky enough to have 2 of these engines. I used to own an orange, vynil roof estelle which also had a smililar spec engine in (again, from a rapid sport originally). However the body was poor so the shell was scrapped.

Of more interest might be 8 white minatour wheels (2 full sets) and 4 of the more standard looking silver and black alloys which can be seen on the offside front picture (the minatours need new rubber)

Structurally this Rapid is in perfect condition, the front brakes are siezed, but that should be easy to right. The only other problem, is the paint is so old, it has cracked and there are tiny, hairline rust marks bleeding through the paint in areas. However, again, a full respray should sort this out.

I'll update you with new pictures as soon as I can!

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Edited 12 April, 200917 yr by Jcb.

Ive never heard os a 136 sport either.....possibly an aftermarket job???

Jcb...all Estelles produce a lot of back pressure, my 136 Estelle blows small animals away when revved and its only mildly tuned. When you say bigger pistons, do you mean its had a rebore? What carb is it running.....a proper Sport should be on a single side draft 40 on a banana manifold.

I wish I could be more clear, truth is, I don't know myself, I'll pass on all the questions though, and hopefully have all the awnsers soon.

As far as I know, the 136 sport were only F, G, H plate. Thus there were far more 130s of the 300 or so Rapids done, starting at B reg. No Estelle 136s were ever made, but Favorit and Rapid production overlapped, hence the new engine.

The carb is a Del Orto twin barrel side draft which is standard for the sport on a curved manifold. SK1 sport camshaft, 4 branch sport manifold, stainless steel exhaust, heavy duty valve springs, facett fuel pump.

Does anyone know how many sports are left.

No Estelle 136s were ever made,

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Not for UK,no, but 136 and 135 saloons were introduced in Czech at the same time as the Rapid change from 130 to 136 engine. Now collectable.

i stand corrected

:cool:Very, very cool and beautiful car. I love the tacky 80's bodykit on these cars! The original Sport spec 130 or 136 engine wasn't "that" fast really, certainly not as fast as they sound, but they are such enormous fun to drive.

Glad you're hanging on to this very rare car, you seem the type that appreciates it.

well, i'm glad you're keeping that and putting it into good order! I'd be compulsively forced to get it if offered lol.

from what you're describing it does sound just like a totally standard 136 sport. which is wonderful, as many were robbed of their tuning parts and the bodykits, and the last ten years haven't been kind to the numbers due to rust pockets and high scrap prices!

Nevertheless I'd possibly be interested in the offside front type wheels - got the centre caps too?

Wow. Thats fantastic.

Pleased to hear you're keeping hold of it and giving it the care and attention it requires.

I look forward to seeing it soon

Look after it mate:thumbup: I would love to have a steer in one of these so if I see you at a meet, any chance?;). I always wanted one of these as a kid. A neighbour had one with a big exhaust and it sounded the nuts and went pretty well too. From my recollection you bought the basic car and then a specialist tuner did the work to Sport spec. I did have the brochure on Skoda conversions but I threw it out a long time ago so can't tell you who did the mods. Skorob (where's he got to by the way??) did post a Skoda Sport brochure on Flickr so try that for more info!

I did have the brochure scanned in and on FlickR but it appears my Pro account has expired and its been deleted. Unfortunately I cannot currently afford to renew my account!! :(

I can email it though?

JCB, if it's not too much trouble, could I ask you to take a photo of the throttle linkage on your car please?

the sport was a standard rapid,then mods done by sk distributors at brackley

i did have a 136 rapid sport g reg